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League of Nations vs. United Nations

League of Nations

noun
  1. an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.

United Nations

[ yoo-nahy-tid ney-shuhnz ]
noun
  1. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945, and since then by many more countries. Abbreviations: UN, U.N.
  2. the nations that signed the joint declaration in Washington, D.C., January 2, 1942, pledging to employ full resources against the Axis powers, not to make a separate peace, etc.